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Thank you both so much for the help.
I am looking at the info on the quasar and awaiting the movie download.
I notice that in respect of the Milky Way the black hole is rated at 3.6 million solar masses, which would seem far too small to offer any influence on the rest of the galaxy with approx 3 billion Suns.
How can the mass concentraton be explained otherwise I dont know..
certainly I can not offer an ideas with any math in support.
I am just on a trip where I question why the laws of nature have to break down...simply because the sums suggest it..
The only possibility I can think is that maybe there are two massive stars orbiting close that produce distorted gravitational effects... how big and how close I dont know but such an arrangement would see similar "jets" of matter thrown into space via the vortex such an orbit would possibly create. But one would think that these would be visable given, presumably they would be capable of giving off light... however if shrouded in gas maybe even if they were there we could not see them.
I have in the past seen black holes as the glue that holds the galaxy together and be this right or wrong it is this conception that now makes me wonder what role they play given that the numbers tell us that they are not large enough to influence very much at all other than their immediate region.
From what I have seen recently they may contribute to star formation by providing "refinned" materials necessary.
This seems contrary to the fact (my impression really) that they do not allow anything to escape... and I was under the impression that the only thing that escaped was "Hawking" radiation.. not matter. But it seems 4% to 5% of matter (percentage of what I am not sure but presumably of a star that is being eaten)
But as I say I dont know.. something just does not seem right which I can not put my finger on ..so I guess I need to understand more and learn more.
Thanks again for the help.
alex
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